Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2018

While Palmer Luckey provided his own Magic Leap One headset to iFixit for their tear down, the founder of Oculus certainly had his chance for a proper review before the spudgers and screwdrivers came out, and he isn’t pulling any punches either. image courtesy Magic Leap. ” Biting. Image courtesy FCC.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Update: We received the following statement from Magic Leap about the departure: “Andy Fouche will no longer serve as VP of Public Relations for Magic Leap, Inc. As we sprint full steam ahead toward the launch of Magic Leap One, we are excited to have Brenda Freeman on board as our Chief Marketing Officer.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. More recent videos from Magic Leap do clarify that you’re looking at the actual tech, but those videos show holograms that are – perhaps unsurprisingly – fuzzier and less impressive than the earlier one.

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Everything VR & AR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Magic Leap. Two words that make up the name of the company that many consider to be the unicorn of the virtual, augmented and mixed reality industry. Is this really what Magic Leap looks to unveil for the world when they do pull the curtain back on what they have been working on with financial backing of over $1.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There have been many announcements at the event: no one of them has been game-changing for the industry, but they overall show where the XR ecosystem is headed. There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware!

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses.

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

Here are some of the most commonly used software tools in the AR industry. It supports a range of AR platforms such as ARKit (iOS), ARCore (Android), Microsoft HoloLens, and Magic Leap. Cross-Platform Support : Develop for multiple platforms including ARKit, ARCore, HoloLens, and Magic Leap.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Several companies went through the bidding process, including HoloLens’s biggest competitor, Magic Leap, but it was Microsoft who ultimately won the bid to partner with the Army as a non-traditional defense contractor.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Magic Leap has sued Chi Xu, the founder of nReal. According to Magic Leap, the company has been able to create these intriguing devices so fast only because Chi Xu was a former Magic Leap employee.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Across the industry, tech firms are incorporating artificial intelligence to boost computer vision. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering. The latter aims to sense the actions and movements of a person in a physical or virtual space.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). The Coronavirus is impacting the whole XR industry. The damn coronavirus Covit19 is ruining the life of millions of Chinese people, and together with this, it is also impacting various industries, XR included. Image by MWC).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality is transforming industries and has so much to offer in terms of exposing people to new experiences they otherwise wouldn’t be able to enjoy. Furthermore, developments in the VR industry are improving existing technology. Thus, in the future, VR users are less likely to encounter such issues.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Across the industry, tech firms are incorporating artificial intelligence to boost computer vision. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering. The latter aims to sense the actions and movements of a person in a physical or virtual space.

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ARPost

APRIL 12, 2021

As a leading VR headset manufacturer, VIVE is well positioned within the industry to have a good view of the writing on the wall. The LA-based startup brings together blogs, videos, and a weekly podcast. His podcast explores recent industry events and features interviews with industry executives and experts. Charlie Fink.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Next week, the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) will host over 100 speakers from various extended reality (XR) firms to explore new immersive technology innovations and opportunities to match a diverse and emerging industry demand. Additionally, IGS Europe hosts exclusive sessions for its VIP ticket holders.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

“Using HoloLens and Stryker’s new By Design solution, hospital stakeholders are now able to envision the ideal operating room configuration with the power of holograms and the benefit of mixed reality,” HoloLens and Windows Experiences general manager Lorraine Bardeen wrote in a blog post.

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ARPost

AUGUST 8, 2019

Designers launch new fashions in live events but industry representatives don’t usually bring models with them when meeting with retailers. Magic Leap is a startup best known for its high-end and high-quality headset. Partners rather than Magic Leap make most of the AR experiences available on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

FRL Research (the previous Facebook Reality Labs) has just published a blog post detailing the amazing research it is doing on audio for Facebook’s future AR glasses. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap now is worth a bit more than $450M. Magic Leap and its magic drop. News worth a mention.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

Back to Blog Page The whole term and concept of Mixed Reality (MR) was first introduced to us by Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino in their paper titled “A Taxonomy of Mixed reality Visual Displays.” Current key players in the field are Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring. More info (PwC research) More info (Metaverse jobs) More info (Shanghai Metaverse Fund) More info (Game industry and recession). There is already a VR mod for Stray.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, we have the brains and the ingénues at Magic Leap to thank for bringing the very idea of ‘Spatial Computing’ to top of mind as a key concept in global innovation. In turn, technology-enhanced learning can help achieve stronger operational and occupational performance in the workforce, for a variety of industry sectors.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. The entire community is rioting , and many important people in the industry have also poured gasoline on the fire. So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. VRKiwi (that pays for posts on this blog) is offering various free keys for the artistic relaxing game Art Pulse , that I describe enthusiastically in this post. Funny link.

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EON Reality

JUNE 10, 2020

Lucasfilm and Magic Leap have entered a partnership with the latter releasing teaser interactive AR experiences in snippets; one featuring popular characters C3PO and R2D2 in a user’s living room. A potential brand which could see home entertainment and AR merge successfully is the Star Wars franchise.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

For sure this is the case of Rob Farquarson-Cole , that you surely know because he comments a lot on this and other VR blogs under the nickname “R FC” He’s not only a VR enthusiast but a professional Industrial Designer that works on “Exploration of Immersive Computing” at Proof Research and Development in London, UK.

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VeeR VR

JANUARY 14, 2018

on Quora Read Mark Metry 's answer to Can I convert a normal blog/website to a virtual reality website? on Quora Industry Applications Read Maria Korolov 's answer to What industries will virtual reality (VR) disrupt? on Quora Read David Frankel 's answer to Why is Magic Leap raising a 1B+ round (October 2015)?

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Meta clients can host Horizon live events and showcases, like announcements or industry showcases. Additionally, immersive hardware experts like Magic Leap , Nreal, and others are designing enterprise solutions. From its Venues and Workroom services, a business can leverage the Metaverse for remote collaboration and guidance.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

As is common in our industry, we iterate on multiple prototypes in parallel & shift resources as we learn”. Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. like EMG?—?to Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

For the next two days, I will feature on this blog a long interview I made with Suzanne Borders, the CEO of BadVR. But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. I suggest you to follow her as well!). But why VR?

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MAY 4, 2017

Some of the most basic waveguides were first commercialized by Lumus Optics (coming out of Israeli military-industrial research). Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sam: Previous to this job, I was doing a whole assortment of different things in the music industry, and I guess the technology industry as well. And that eventually — that and a music blog and I was doing at the time — introduced me to the guy who started Splash House, which is a smaller music festival in Palm Springs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sam: Previous to this job, I was doing a whole assortment of different things in the music industry, and I guess the technology industry as well. And that eventually — that and a music blog and I was doing at the time — introduced me to the guy who started Splash House, which is a smaller music festival in Palm Springs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. And so, we were a tech news blog and competed at the time with likes of GIGO, and TechCrunch. It was really incredible. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. And so, we were a tech news blog and competed at the time with likes of GIGO, and TechCrunch. It was really incredible. Dean: Yeah.

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